Beaghmore

The Beaghmore Stone Circles ( An Irish Bheathaidh Mhór ) are 13.5 km north west of Cookstown in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland and among the Ulster counties. They were discovered in the middle of the 20th century peat cutters in the Sperrin Mountains. The rather low stones of the seven circles had been covered over the centuries completely from the moor. Their origin dates back to 1600 BC.

An area of ​​20,000 m² was studied between 1945 and 1949 and again in 1965, with circles, small cairns and stone rows were exposed. The system is unique in the world. The largest of established standing stones is 1.2 m high; most are little more than head high. The plant, which already had an older precursor, is also considered a Bronze Age ritual site.

The " Dragon's teeth" is a stone circle whose interior is completely covered with stone material. A similar architecture has been found in Ireland only in the stone circle of Kealkill in County Cork. The main feature of Beaghmore are tangent to stone circles, associated with small cairns and alignments. Irish stone circles can be found ( with some exceptions ) only in the provinces of Munster and Ulster. The stone circles of Cork and Kerry series are in the southwest, where the counties of Cork and Kerry protrude. In the north of Ulster series, the County Tyrone is represented numerically most common among stone circles.

Parallels

The only French example of the tangent type is He Lannic. The shape is similar, but unlithische designs are Navan Fort, Emain Macha in County Armagh in, the royal seat of Ulster and Deer Park Farms in County Antrim. Here again there is a tangent to circles (though of wattle ), which, in the form of a different size are designed eight.